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V SEWING MAGHINEGUIDE. No. 319,690. Patented June 9, 1885.

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JOHN FITTING, OF HAMMONTON, NEW JERSEY.

SEWING-MACHINE G-UIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,690, dated June 9, 1885.

Application filed May 6, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN FITTING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hammonton, in the county of Atlantic, State of New Jerse have invented a new and useful Im rovement in Sewing-Machine Guides, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top or plan view of a sewingmachine guide embodying my invention, the presser-foot of the machine being shown dotted. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, the presserf00t being omitted. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the guide and presser-foot in line as m, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a vertical section in line y y, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists of a sewing-machine guide adapted for sewing in right-line and circular directions and close to the edge of the work, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a metallic plate provided with a (shaped slot, a, whereby, by means of a screw, B, it may be adjusted and secured in various positions on the cloth-plate of a sewing-machine. One side, 12, of the plate A is right-lined, one end, a, is circular or curved, and the opposite end, 61, is right-lined, and has rising from it a lip, 0, which extends parallel with said end (1. On the upper'face of the plate A is an inclined plane, D, which extends parallel with the end d of the plate on the inner side of the lip O. The presser-foot is bifurcated or longitudinally grooved on its under side, so as to straddle the lip O, and the under side of said foot is curved or inclined to accord with the plane D, and bears on said plane. It will be seen that when right-line or straight sewing is required the plate A is adjusted and securedin position on the cloth-plate so that the side 1) extends transversely on the latter, and they cloth or work to be sewed is guided along said side I). In this case the presser-foot occupies (No model.)

a position relatively to the side 12, the same as in any ordinary sewing-machine guide. In Fig. 1, however, said 'foot, which is shown dotted, indicates the position of the same when operating with the lip G. For circular sewing or sewing circular pieces of fabric or goods, the plate is shifted in such manner that end d, and the needle may enter the fabric or' work close to the edge or end thereof, the fabricor work passing under the outside portion of the presser-foot.

.Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A sewing-machine guide consisting of a plate having a T-shaped slot and right-line and circular guiding-edges, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A sewing-machine guide formed with a raised lip, the inner face of which is inclined, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A sewing-machine guide formed of a plate having a raised lip at one side or end thereof and an inclined plane on the upper face of the plate,adjacent to said lip,the said raised lip and plane serving for a rest for the presser-foot of the machine, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. A sewing-machine guide formed of a plate having right-line and circular guiding portions, a raised lip, and an inclined plane,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN FITTING.

Witnesses:

J AOOB FITTING, P. FITTING. 

